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The Rangel amendment was defeated in 1972 in a nonrecorded 

 vote, but Rangel brought the issue up again in 1973- By 1973, the com- 

 position of the subcommittee had changed, and the following were 

 members of the Subcommittee on Aeronautics and Space Technology: 



Democrats Republicans 



Ken Hechler, West Virginia, Chairman John \Y. Wydler, New York 



John W. Davis, Georgia Barry M. Goldvvater, Jr., California 



William R. Cotter, Connecticut John B. Conlan, Arizona 



J. J. Pickle, Texas Stanford E. Parris, Virginia 

 Ray Thornton, Arkansas 



Even though he had left the Science Committee, Rangel's efforts 

 to eliminate NASA funding of the Johannesburg-area tracking facil- 

 ities stirred a great deal more support in 1973. Rangel argued that no 

 black NASA official had ever visited the South African tracking facil- 

 ity, that an alternative to the station should be found, and that con- 

 tinued financing of the station violated our national policy on civil 

 rights. Chairman Teague took on the defense of funding the South 

 African facility, and in opposition to the Rangel motion: 



That station in South Africa is one of the most important tracking stations we 

 have. * * * I do not feel this is an item that should be a factor in our authorization 

 bill. 



To Rangel's contention that blacks were not being trained for the 

 higher paying positions exclusively held by whites at the NASA 

 facility in South Africa, Teague offered: 



I will go with the gentleman to the State Department or any place he wants to 

 go and try to see if we can confer with that country and see if they will not train 

 some of the black people in technical areas where they can get some of the better 

 salaried positions. 



At this point, Hechler broke with his chairman and decided to speak 

 out on the floor for the Rangel amendment, declaring: 



Because of the efforts of the gentleman from New York (Mr. Rangel) a number 

 of improvements in housing, educational facilities, and medical care have been made 

 at the Johannesburg installation. But the relative salaries of black and white personnel 

 are shockingly unequal and inequitable. 



On a rollcall vote on May 23, 1973, Rangel's amendment was 

 defeated by 294 to 104. Members of the Science Committee who went 

 against their chairman and voted for the Rangel amendment were 

 Bergland, Hechler, and Mosher; the other members of the Science 



